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  • Work Hard and Be Amazed: C.C. Chapman on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: None

    C.C. Chapman, co-author of Content Rules, has a new book out, Amazing Things Will Happen, which is a collection of short pieces, lessons, and observations intended for "anybody out there," C.C. says, "who may be stuck in a rut or maybe just not doing exactly what they wanted with their lives."

  • Brands That Surged (and Brands That Sank) After Hurricane Sandy

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, millions lost electricity, heat, and water. But just a few days later, many companies promoting to those millions had—cluelessly—gone back to business as usual. Here is a list for brands that "surged" and brands that "sank" in Sandy's aftermath.

  • Apple, Best Buy, and Kohl's Delivering Best Shopping Experiences via Mobile

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: None

    Overall, consumers are unimpressed with their mobile shopping experiences at the top 20 brick-and-mortar retail brands: Retailers' apps and mobile sites are often too slow to load, challenging to navigate, and error-prone at checkout, according to a survey from Mobiquity.

  • The Contentious State of B2B Content Marketing [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: None

    A recent content marketing study from MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute found that B2B marketers are uncertain about whether they are effectively using content marketing tactics. This infographic captures and presents some key data from that study, including about budgets, social presence, and content challenges.

  • Your Brand and Nine Legal Issues Related to Patent, Trademark, and Copyright

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Management

    Protecting your brand, one of the most fundamental aspects of your market presence, is not something that should be taken lightly or ignored. From the very beginning of your business, you need to create and maintain a solid intellectual property (IP), patent, and copyright strategy.

  • Email Marketing: Deliverability Trends and Benchmarks

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: None

    Legitimate marketing messages account for an alarming 70% of "this is spam" complaints in consumers' inboxes, underscoring just how important it is for marketers to keep email lists up to date and make use of email marketing best-practices, according to a report by Return Path.

  • Four Ways B2B Marketers Can Boost the Value of Their Tweets

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Whether you're looking to move beyond the occasional tweet or you're aiming to further polish your approach, here are some tips for how you, as a B2B marketer, can take full advantage of Twitter as a marketing tool.

  • Top Brands Using Twitter for Customer Support

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Among the brands listed on the Interbrand Top 100, more than nine in ten (95%) use Twitter and nearly one in four (23%) use it as a customer service platform (i.e., they have a Twitter handle dedicated to customer service), according to a new report by Simply Measured.

  • Three Steps for Stopping Checkout Abandonment

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Any e-commerce site owner knows the frustration resulting from the abandonment of a full shopping basket. But the most likely causes of a high rate of abandonment are few, and they're relatively simple to rectify. Here are three key areas that can generate improved conversions if you pay attention to them.

  • The Top 20 Social CMOs of the Fortune 100 [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    BusinessNext Social conducted a study of CMOs in the Fortune 100 to see which of them were most socially active in 2012. Surprisingly, only one in five Fortune 100 top-level marketing/communications executives have an active public presence on social networks, the analysis found.

  • Small Businesses Tepid on Social Media, Prefer WOM and Advertising

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Only one-third (35%) of small business owners cite social media as a beneficial tactic for their business, though views about the benefits of social marketing vary by industry, according to a survey from Hiscox.

  • Six Ways to Use Online Video for B2B Event Marketing (a Case Study)

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Online video is a highly engaging and versatile tool for B2B marketing and lead generation, including tradeshow marketing. This brief case study shares how a B2B technology company used online video to increase in-person tradeshow meetings with targeted decision makers by 218%.

  • Social Media Disconnect: Are Marketers Out of Touch?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Though consumers and marketers are fairly aligned in their focus on Facebook—similar proportions of each segment use the social networking site—marketers tend to be out of synch with their audiences regarding the use of other popular social channels, according to a study by Pitney Bowes Software.

  • 10 SEO Tips to Improve Your Search Rankings--and Your Website

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Don't just try to move up a few places in search results with your SEO efforts; rather, turn a visit to your website into a better experience and help your site to naturally grow in popularity.

  • To Grow You Must Change: John Jantsch on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

    Podcast

    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: None

    John Jantsch believes that if businesses are to grow, they need to be ready, willing, and able to change. To navigate and instigate such change, business leaders need a clarity of purpose and they need to set big, audacious goals.

  • Social Media, Online Video Driving Ad Spend Growth

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: None

    Bolstered by Internet advertising—particularly social media and online video—global ad spend growth is forecast to strengthen over the next three years, rising from an estimated 3.3% growth in 2012, to 4.1% growth in 2013 and 5.6% growth in 2015, according to projections by ZenithOptimedia.

  • Eight Ingredients of Effective Inbound Marketing for Generating and Qualifying Leads

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    As marketers, we instinctively realize it's impossible to pinpoint when our prospects will be buying. That's why it's critical not just to keep in touch but also to make sure your company shows up in all of the right places when the prospect is selectively attracted to buy from you.

  • Black Friday/Cyber Monday Weekend Sparks 50M Tweets

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    From Nov. 22 to 26, 2012, some 50 million tweets related to Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping were generated, with peaks of nearly 100 tweets per second, according to a report by DataSift.

  • Why We Blew Up the MarketingProfs Homepage: Behind the Scenes

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: None

    Today, we've launched a far simpler and cleaner homepage that we think helps visitors make sense of MarketingProfs and directs them efficiently and easily to the content they are looking for.

  • PEAR, or Why a .3% Click-Through Rate for a Banner Ad Is Perfectly Acceptable

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Your banner ads aren't all about the click-throughs and immediate purchases. Brand retention and recognition are key goals of online advertising, because you want customers to seek you out when ready to make purchases.